The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-12

slsd the earthly laboratory. They ssaaA
o. the other side Of the thin wall Of cleo.
Eicity, the vail that teens to divide the
physical from the spiritual world,
the thin wall Of electricity, %
thin the wall that ever end
anon IL seems to b almost tsoksA
through-broken through from our side By
telephone and telegraphic apparaAus,
broken through from the other side BY
| strange influences which men in their d.
| norance call spiritualistic manifestation.
All that matter cleared up. Agassis stand
ing amid his student explorers down IN
Brasil coming across some great novelty
in the rocks, taking OF his hat and saying:
"Gentlerien, let rs pray; We must have
divine illumination; We want wisdom from
the Creator to study these rocks; He made
them; let Us pray" Agassis going right
| on with his studies forever and forever.
But what are the men Of the law, who In
this world found their chief joy in the
legal PROFESSIONALISM are they doing
now! Studying law in . universe
where everything Is controlled by law
from flight Of humming-bird to flight
Of world-law, not dry and hard
| and drudging, but righteous and magnif-
icent law, before which man and cherub
| and seraph and archangel and God HIM
| self bow. The chain of law long enough
to wind around the immensities and in.
| finity and eternity. Chain Of law. What
| place to study law, where all the links Of
the chain are in the hand.
What are our departed Christian friends
! who in this world had their joy in the
healing art, doing now? Busy at their old
business. No sickness in Heaven, but
plenty of sickness on earth, plenty Of
wounds in the different parts Of Gods
dominion to be healed and to be medicated.
You can not understand why that patient
got we'll after all the skillful doctors
| of New York and Brooklyn had said he
must die. Perhaps Abercrombie touched
| him-Abercrcnbie,w who, after many years.
doctoring the bodies and the souls Of PEG.
pie in Scotland, went up to God in 1874.
Perhaps Abercrombie touched him.
! should not wonder il my old friend, DR..
John Brown, who died in Edinburgh
John Brown, the auther of "Rab and His
Friends'-JOhn Brown, who was as hum
bio . Christian as he was skillful q
physician and world-renowned author-I
should not wonder II he had been back
again and again to see some Of his old
patients. Those who had their joy in
healing the sickness and the woes Of earth,
gone up to Heaven, arc come forth again
| for benignant medicament.
But what are our friends who found their
chief Joy in conversation and sociability
doing now! In brighter conversation there
and in grander society.
What place to visit in, where your next
door neighbors are kings and queens. You
yourselves kingly and queenly. II they
want to know more particularly about the
first paradise, they have only to 90 over
and ask Adam. II they want to know how
| the sun and the moon halted, they have
only to 60 over and ask Joshua. II they
| want to know how the storm pelted Sodom.
they have only to 60 over and ask Lot. II
they want to know more about the AFRO
gance of Hannah. they have only 20 60
over and ask Mordecsi. II they want to
know how the Red Sea boiled when
Il was cloven, they have only
to go over and ask Moses. II they want
to know the particulars about the
Bethlehem advent, they have only to 60
over and ask the serenading angels who
stood that Christmas night in the bal.
comics of crystal. II they want to know
more Of the particulars Of the crucifxion,
they have only to go over and ask those
who were personal spectators while tho
mountains crouched and the Heavens got
black in the face at the spectacle. II they
want to know more about the sulferings Of
the Scotch Covenanters, they have only to
GO over and ask Andrew Melville. II they
want TO know more about the old time
revivals, they have only to 60 over and
ask Whitefield, and Wesley, and Living.
ston, and Fletcher, and Nettleton, and Fin.
ney. o! what place to visit in.
| II eternity were one minute shorter it
would not be long enough for such social
ity. Think of our friends who in this
world were passionately fond of flowers,
turned into paradise! Think Of our friends
who were very fond of raising superb
fruit, turned into the orchard where each
tree has twelve kinds of fruit at once, and
bearing fruit all the year round!
| What are our departed Christian friends
doing I'm Heaven, those who on earth
found their chief joy in the Gospel minis
try: They are visiting their old congrega-
tions. Most of those ministers have got
their people around them already. When
get to Heavens-as by the grace of God
am destined to go that place-I will come
and see you all. Yea, I will come to all
| the people to whom have administered in
the Gospel, and to the millions Of
souls to whom, through the kindness Of the
printing press. am permitted to preach
every week in this land, and in other lands
letters coming from New Zealand and
Australia, and uttermost parts Of tbs
earth, a. well as from near nations, telling
mo Of the souls have helped-I will visit
them all. I give them fair notice. Our
departed friends Of the ministry are en-.
gagged in that delectable entertainment
now.
| But what are our departed Christian
friends who, in all departments OF useful.
ness were busy, finding their chief joy in
doing good-:wbat are they doing now:
| Going right along with the work. John
| Howard visiting dungeons; the dead wo.
men of Northern and Southern battle.
fields still abroad looking for the wounded ;
George Peabody still watching the poor; ;
Thomas Garrison still looking after the
enslaved-all Of those who did good on
earth buster since death than before.
The tombstone not the terminus, but the
starting post. What are our departed
Christian friends, who found their chief
| JOY IN studying Uou, uoiuS now: OtuUylnS
God yet. No need Of revelation now, for
unblanched they are face to face. Now,
they can handle the omnipotent thunder.
bolts just as child handles tho sword of q
| father come back from victorious battle.
They have NO sin, nor fear consequently.
Studying Christ, not through . revelation.
save the revelation Of the scars, that deep
lettering which brings it all up quick
enough. Studying the Christ Of the Beth
lehem caravansary, the Christ Of the
| awful massacre with its hemorrhage Of
had and hand and foot and sida-H,a